Talk:Guide/Natural Gas Geysers

Something is really off with the calculations on this page...

It states that a 100 g/s Geyser can support 7 Natural Gas Generators, 16 Fertilizer Makers, and 2 Air Scrubbers with a net gain of 2719 W. The "Puzzle Pieces" section does indicate the correct values for each machine that I see in-game - but then the math section replaces those values with some other values (presumably from a previous patch before the nerf)


 * 1 Natural Gas Geyser: +100 Natural Gas g/s
 * 7 Natural Gas Generators: -630 Natural Gas g/s
 * 16 Fertilizer Synthesizer: +160 Natural Gas g/s

So somewhere in this system we need to magically create 370 more Natural Gas g/s.

With the CORRECT MATH, these are the totals you should be coming up with for a single 100 g/s average output Natural Gas Geyser:

And it turns out that the more Fertilizer Synthesizers you add, the less power you get out of the system (which... makes sense). So if your goal is power, this mess of synthesizers is not really the way to go. Not to mention having to feed them dirt and phosphorite constantly.

I made this spreadsheet to help me w/ the math: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iXEiFi3QGG0uEHxbcIMjJc0St-DVvHQHrZXcrSzIc8U/edit#gid=0

(You can File => Make a Copy to play w/ the numbers)